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Religious violence in Frank Herbert's Dune series
| Title: | Religious violence in Frank Herbert's Dune series. |
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| Name(s): |
Howard, Kenton Taylor. Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Department of English |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Date Issued: | 2012 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Physical Form: | electronic | |
| Extent: | v, 57 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | This thesis examines the first two novels of Frank Herbert's Dune series, Dune and Dune Messiah, in order to consider these two novels from the framework of postcolonial theory and analyze how religious violence becomes a source of subjugation, military power, and colonialism within the works. The three chapters of this thesis chart the creation of a colonial project through epistemic violence, physical power, and cultural control enabled by religion. This thesis argues that, in the Dune novels, religious violence functions as a colonial project that closely resembles the goals of real-world colonial enterprises, and the failure to manage this colonial project by those who initiated it shows that the effects of colonial projects based on religious violence are dangerous and uncontrollable. | |
| Identifier: | 820353086 (oclc), 3355558 (digitool), FADT3355558 (IID), fau:3929 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
by Kenton Taylor Howard. Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. Includes bibliography. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Reader. |
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| Subject(s): |
Herbert, Frank Herbert, Frank Science fiction, American -- Criticism and interpretation Dune (Imaginary place) Violence -- Religious aspects Violence in literature |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3355558 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
